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humorous, droll, amusing: His farcical attempts at surfing
fully dressed had us in hysterics.
fare n. 1 passenger, traveller: The taxi-driver deposited his fare
at the hotel. 2 charge, price, cost: What is the fare from
Oxford to London? 3 food, diet, victuals, meals, viands,
eatables, provisions: Prison fare consisted of bread and water.
--v. 4 do, make one's way, manage, get on or along, make out,
survive: The children didn't fare very well on their own.
farewell n. 1 adieu, goodbye: We said our farewells and left. 2
departure, leave-taking, cong‚, parting, Colloq send-off: I
want to avoid a tearful farewell.
--interjection. 3 Adieu!, Goodbye!, So long!, Godspeed!,
Adios!, Hasta luego!, Hasta la vista!, Auf Wiedersehen!, Ciao!,
Sayonara!, Aloha!, Vaya con Dios!, Colloq Brit God bless!,
Old-fashioned Toodle-oo!, Pip! Pip!, Ta-ta!, US old-fashioned
See you later (alligator)!, Don't take any wooden nickels!: I
said farewell and we went our separate ways.
far-fetched
adj. strained, stretched, improbable, implausible, unlikely,
doubtful, dubious, questionable, forced, unconvincing,
unrealistic, fantastic, preposterous, hard to believe,
unbelievable, incredible, Colloq hard to swallow, fishy: They
told some far-fetched tale about being robbed by a gang of
midgets.
farm n. 1 farmstead, farmhouse, grange, homestead, holding; land,
farmland, acreage, arable; Brit steading, smallholding,
allotment, Scots farm-toun, croft: My grandfather owns a farm
in Yorkshire. 2 buy the farm. die, be killed: A MIG caught
Johnson and he bought the farm.
--v. 3 cultivate, work the land, till the soil: His family has
been farming this land for centuries. 4 farm out. contract,
subcontract, lease, delegate, let (out): They cut staff and now
farm out much of the work.
farmer n. husbandman, agriculturist, agronomist, yeoman, Brit
smallholder, US dialect granger: The farmers here were hard hit